Board Thread:Fan Fiction Zone/@comment-26538658-20150803011224/@comment-1298206-20150803184441

I can't recall off the top of my head, but I don't think it's ever explained. I think after Sunflash takes up the mantle of Badger Lord, there's a time skip and the next time Sunflash is shown, there are more hares at the mountain.

Correction: Upon skimming through chapters of "Outcast of Redwall", it appears that Breeze and Starbuck were not the only residents of Salamandastron prior to Sunflash's arrival. I just reread the first few pages of chapter twenty-one, which picks up the day after Sunflash reaches Salamandastron and there is no indication of that being true. In fact, quite the opposite. And I quote "Long trestle tables were packed with hares, from lanky, tough, old males, through to formidable-looking harewives, leverets of both sexes who fluttered their eyelids at one another while stuffing food shamelessly, and little ones with atrocious table manners who gorged and fought alternately."